Show OLLA The agricultural building of the U Uni Un University ni of California Californi was destroyed by fire recently causing a loss of about 20 oon Vidette-Re Vidette Vidette orter The University of Virginia will have havea a slow bicycle race raC among the events at atthe atthe atthe the spring games The last wheel to cross the line will be declared the he win win- ner Daily Daily College Spirit President Eliot of Harvard prophesies prophesies sies ies that college fraternities will in time cause American Universities to be broken up into colleges after the English plan Penn Chronicle 1 The regents of the University of California California California Cali Cali- fornia are considering a petition asking that a chair in Norse language and literature be established in that uni uni- Washington and Lee University has hasa a productive endowment of Washington's gift of is still intact and yields the University an annual income of Tar gum In the recent commencement exercises of the Union Theological seminary Miss Emily Grace Briggs daughter of Professor sor C. C A. A Briggs carried off the honors Miss Briggs who is in her twenty first year is the first women to tobe tobe tobe be graduated by the faculty of the seminary Observing classmate II Why does Miss B B look like the moon Second ditto II Because she looks round O. O C. C M. M II But she doesn't always t S Second cond ditto II Neither does the moon University Beacon According to the latest report of U.S. U.S. U.S. U. U S. S Commissioner of Education Harris there are in this country colleges and universities These received during the year a total income of employed instructors and enrolled G f t r- r 0 I f undergraduates and graduate graduate grad grad- stud students en ts Bowdoin Orient J r The University of has now one of the finest and best pest equipped Ii observatories in the country This is I the Flower Observatory that was dedicated dedicated dedi dedi- on the of this month I A valuable and unique donation wa was made to the University of Texas as a at t Washington s birthday gift It consisted consisted con con- f. f of books valued at The gentleman who gave them i has spent fifty years in collecting them His name is Swante Palm For thirty- thirty one years he has been Swedish Vice Consul in Austin Baylor Baylor Literary R. R C. C Winthrop of Boston has sent as a gift to the Yale Library the largest and most valuable collection of letters t and documents ever received by it They consist of sixt six sixty six letters and andr r autographs written by magnates of New England colonial days A large number of them bear dates before 1650 and two twenty-two of them have never been printed Bowdoin z Orient Chicago University has devised another another another an an- other new thing Lady Aberdeen wife of the Governor-General Governor of Canada is the commencement orator She is said to be a noble woman who has rendered great service This is the first instance on record of a woman orator at a great university commencement Chicago University University University Uni Uni- is surely not lacking in Baylor Baylor Literary Vassar has just received the complete works of the celebrated ornithologist Audubon There are only nine of them but they are worth about 2000 The donor is Mr of Whitestone R. R I. I Daily I.-Daily Daily College Spirit Stanford University Ever since Stanford first opened its doors almost six years ago its student body has been drawn very la largely gely from the states east of t the Rocky Mountains The cause of this has often been asked and President Jordon recently addressed addressed- a letter to each of the students from the East now in the University asking what reasons led him to come to Palo Alto The statistics compiled from these an answers answers answers an- an give some interesting details in regard to the students here The main attractions seem to be the elective system system tem the Stanford corps of f teachers and California A few queer replies were given such as the one in which the reason was that the writer had heard Stanford called a II godless institution and wanted to bring his God and establish establish establish lish his dominion here It appears that that- the coming of Eastern students here is not likely to diminish and that Stanford will still remain one of the most cosmopolitan cosmopolitan cosmopolitan cosmo cosmo- politan of universities Palo Palo Alto Student in room I I think the Professor ought to give me me- extra credit for the brains displayed in inthis inthis inthis this drawing A companion in misery You dont don't get any credit over here for brains only brains only for work Burnet Woods Echo The late Alfred Nobel of Stockholm whose property amounted to about 10 offered nearly the entire income from it to be given annually in five prizes They are as follows First forthe forthe for for- forthe the most important discovery of the year in the department of physics second in chemistry third in physiology or medicine fourth for the most distinguished distinguished distinguished distin distin- literary contribution in the same same- field and the fifth to be given to the theman theman theman man who has achieved the most to promote promote promote pro pro- mote the cause of peace The awards will be given by the Swedish Academy of Science and the prizes are open to the world Buff Bud Buff and Blue President Stryker of Hamilton Col College College lege in a recent address to the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York alumni of that institution in speaking of the tendency to make the 1 ollege allege course largely elective and to d do o oF r. r F away with the requirement of the classics classics classics class class- ics for the attainment of a bachelor of arts' arts degree asserted that this tendency is toward the corruption and demoralization tion of college degrees He used these words II I r I am glad to say that there is good reason to be confident that the new departure departure departure de de- in favor of the corruption of A. A B. B Degree by awarding it for four years ot of work in any subject whatsoever will not stampede the educational forces of this great State This new program is the denial of the history of the A. A B. B Degree and it is a flat outrage upon those who thus protest in behalf of its and immemorial meaning Itis It Itis is an attempt to demoralize this degree which will be more honored in the breech than in the muzzle le College Spirit tn |